Description:This video features opening comments from the 2010 PATH Grantee Meeting and the keynote address by John O’Brien (Senior Advisor to the SAMHSA Administrator on Health Care Reform), who discusses the future of health care reform and its impact.

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Dr. Mattie Cheek, Director of the PATH program at SAMHSA, welcomes PATH grantees and PATH providers to the 2010 PATH Grantee Meeting. Dr. Gretchen Stiers, Acting Branch Chief, Division of Policy Innovation at SAMHSA, leads the audience through the progression of the opening plenary session.

The keynote address for the opening session of the 2010 PATH Grantee Meeting was delivered by John O'Brien who serves as the Senior Advisor to the SAMHSA Administrator on health care reform and lead's SAMHSA's strategic initiatives involving health care reform.

Mr. O'Brien has a long and distinguished career that has focused on designing evidence based practices, systems of care for individuals, and addressing behavioral health needs for individuals and their families. At SAMHSA, Mr. O'Brien is helping agencies and states, community providers, consumers and family members create a good and modern behavioral health system that integrates seamlessly with the visions of the Affordable Care Act.

In this featured video you will see John O'Brien deliver a keynote address geared to lay out the road ahead for health care reform and its impact. In line with Mr. O'Brien's keynote address is a panel discussion that follows. To view the panel discussion, please see the video also included in this series entitled, "Keynote Address by John O'Brien: National Panel Response to Keynote Address

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